A few days later it was mine...
At that point my bicycle fell over in shock...
In the first couple of days of driving it I discovered that the battery was useless, the water pump liked to pump the water out of the engine, one of the PAS pipes wasn't really keen on holding in ATF and the exhaust rattled on the remains of the tow bar something chronic. The first few jobs were fairly easy, getting the old tow bar off was more of a challenge...
Once I got past these niggles, I could actually enjoy the car. It was so nice going back to a car with a bit of go (I'm no power junkie but the Golf just felt so limp, especially as the cars I ran prior to it were, an Alfa 164 V6 and a Porsche 944, dropping down to a distinctly unenthusiastic 70bhp 1.6, was a bit of a shock). The other real positives were, that the BMW was surprisingly characterful, I worked at a Saab, Skoda and Alfa outlet and most of the cars I drove on a daily basis felt so dull by comparison.
After a year or so as my daily driver, it gained a new gearbox as the old one started to die after I took it to Bruge, I would like to blame the Belgians for this but I suspect it was on the way out anyway... Also it needed some some welding, actually rather a lot of welding to get it through its first MOT (with me as the owner).
Shortly after that landmark I was made redundant. A new job, meant much higher mileage so the old BMW ended up as a second car. I have kept her MOT'ed and fairly road worthy. I've now had the car about 5 years, its part of the furniture, a sort of rolling resto but with more emphasis put into just keeping it rolling!
A more recent pic taken on a trip into deepest darkest North Wales....
---_0928 by brunel944, on Flickr
Some of my previous motors...
